The Man Without Qualities
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The Man Without Qualities is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts by the Austrian writer Robert Musil.
Cover of the first edition
Robert Musil
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Robert Mathias Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer of novels, short stories and plays. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important a
The Man Without Qualities
…Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts by the Austrian writer Robert Musil. The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days. The plot often veers into allegorical…
Musil
Commemorative plaque in Brno
Depiction of Musil at the Musilhaus in Klagenfurt
Grigia (1923)